Over the years he meets real-life characters including Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain who play a role in his search. Butler is set during the Victorian age and tells the story of a young reporter, Edward Seymour, who questions whether there is life after death after experiencing family deaths and encounters with the supernatural. London author Joy Ferguson’s historical novel under the pen name Margaret J. and a dangerous stranger who might be behind it all.” Self-published through FriesenPress, $13.99 ebook, $19.99 paperback and $31.99 hardcover. With the help of others, they discover “corruption, government conspiracies. Ilderton resident and retired English teacher Joseph Wilson’s debut novel tells the story of an OPP officer, Kirsten Petersen, investigating a shady real estate deal that is the tip of the iceberg of trouble in Harmony, where she has a troubled past. This book by former London Free Press editor-in-chief Paul Berton is described as “an economic, environmental and social study” that explores how shopping has grown out of control over the last 50 years and “that if we invented today’s consumer culture, then we can invent something to replace it.” Published by Douglas & McIntyre, it is available online and in major bookstores for $36.95 (hardcover) and $19.99 (ebook).

This is the third instalment of London author Randal Graham’s Beforelife Series that picks up the threads of Beforelife and Afterlife Crisis, revealing what happens “when two of the afterlife’s best-known residents have a baby: the first one born in the hereafter” and “Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world.” Published by ECW Press, Nether Regions is available online and at most major book stores for $24.95 (paperback) and $11.99 (ebook). This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

Toward Beauty by Dennis Garnhum